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Meta Signs Deal to Run AI Workloads on Amazon's Graviton CPUs

Meta has agreed to power its expanding artificial‑intelligence services with millions of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graviton processors, the company announced Friday. The ARM‑based CPUs, designed for AI inference tasks, will replace the cloud provider’s previous reliance on competitors such as Google Cloud. The move underscores a broader industry shift toward specialized CPUs for real‑time reasoning, code generation and other agentic workloads, and highlights AWS’s growing portfolio of custom chips, including its Trainium GPU for training and inference.

DeepSeek unveils V4 Flash and V4 Pro models, claiming open‑weight lead

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released two preview versions of its next‑generation large language model, DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro. Both models use a mixture‑of‑experts architecture and support a 1‑million‑token context window, enabling users to feed entire codebases or long documents into prompts. DeepSeek says V4 Pro, with 1.6 trillion parameters (49 billion active), is the largest open‑weight model on the market, while V4 Flash offers a smaller, more affordable option. The company claims the new models narrow the performance gap with leading closed‑source systems and are priced well below competing frontier models.

DeepSeek launches V4 Pro and Flash models, touts million-token context amid U.S. ban

DeepSeek unveiled two new AI models, V4 Pro and V4 Flash, promising a context window of up to one million tokens and open‑source access. The company claims the Pro version rivals top closed‑source systems in reasoning, while the Flash variant offers faster responses with comparable performance on simple tasks. Shortly after the release, U.S. federal agencies barred the app from government devices, citing national‑security concerns, and South Korea paused downloads over privacy issues. The moves highlight a clash between rapid AI innovation and emerging regulatory scrutiny.

Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI Heads to Trial in Oakland

Elon Musk’s legal battle with OpenAI begins in Oakland on April 27, as a jury will hear his claims that the AI firm defrauded him and breached its founding agreement. The suit, filed by Musk and his new venture xAI, alleges fraud, unjust enrichment and a breach of OpenAI’s charitable trust, while demanding the removal of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and a restructuring of the company. OpenAI counters that Musk lacks standing and that no cognizable promise was broken. With both firms eyeing public offerings, the courtroom drama could reshape the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence.

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek unveils V4 model, says it rivals U.S. giants

DeepSeek, the Beijing‑based artificial‑intelligence startup, released a preview of its next‑generation V4 model on Friday, claiming it can match the performance of leading U.S. systems from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. The open‑source model emphasizes coding capabilities and boasts compatibility with domestic Huawei hardware, marking a milestone for China’s chip industry. The announcement follows DeepSeek’s earlier R1 model, which drew criticism from U.S. officials over alleged use of banned Nvidia chips and accusations of misusing Anthropic’s Claude technology.

Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge to create $20 billion transatlantic AI company

Toronto‑based Cohere and Heidelberg‑based Aleph Alpha announced a merger in Berlin that values the combined entity at roughly $20 billion. The deal gives Cohere’s shareholders about 90% of the new firm and Aleph Alpha’s shareholders 10%, effectively making it a Cohere acquisition framed as a merger. German Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger and Canada’s AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon attended the launch, underscoring the geopolitical stakes. The German government will serve as an anchor customer, providing early revenue and political backing as the two firms aim to offer a non‑U.S. alternative for enterprise and public‑sector AI services.